[PATCH v2] arm64: kdump: simplify the reservation behaviour of crashkernel=,high

[Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>]

On arm64, reservation for 'crashkernel=xM,high' is taken by searching for
suitable memory region top down. If the 'xM' of crashkernel high memory
is reserved from high memory successfully, it will try to reserve
crashkernel low memory later accoringly. Otherwise, it will try to search
low memory area for the 'xM' suitable region. Please see the details in
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt.

While we observed an unexpected case where a reserved region crosses the
high and low meomry boundary. E.g on a system with 4G as low memory end,
user added the kernel parameters like: 'crashkernel=512M,high', it could
finally have [4G-126M, 4G+386M], [1G, 1G+128M] regions in running kernel.
The crossing 4G boudary of crashkernel high region will bring issues:

1) For crashkernel=x,high, if getting crashkernel high region across
4G boudary, then user will see two memory regions under 4G, and one
memory region above 4G. The two crashkernel low memory regions are
confusing.

2) If people explicityly specify "crashkernel=x,high crashkernel=y,low"
and y <= 128M, when crashkernel high region crosses 4G boudary and the
part below 4G of crashkernel high reservation is bigger than y, the
expected crahskernel low reservation will be skipped. But the expected
crashkernel high reservation is shrank and could not satisfy user space
requirement.

3) The crossing boundary behaviour of crahskernel high reservation is
different than x86 arch. On x86_64, the memory near 4G is reserved by
system, e.g for mapping firmware, pci map. The crashkernel reservation
crossing 4G boundary never happens. From distros point of view, this
brings inconsistency and confusion. Users need to dig into x86 and arm64
details to find out why.

For kernel itself, the impact of issue 3) could be slight. While issue
1) and 2) cause actual impact becuase it brings obscure semantics and
behaviour to crashkernel=,high reservation.

Here, for crashkernel=xM,high, search the high memory for the suitable
region only in high memory. If failed, try reserving the suitable
region only in low memory. Like this, the crashkernel high region will
only exist in high memory, and crashkernel low region only exists in low
memory. The reservation behaviour for crashkernel=,high is clearer and
simpler.

Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
---
v1->v2:
 - Fold patch 2 of v1 into patch 1 for better reviewing.
 - Update patch log to add more details.

 arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
index 58a0bb2c17f1..b8cb780df0cb 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
@@ -127,12 +127,13 @@ static int __init reserve_crashkernel_low(unsigned long long low_size)
  */
 static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
 {
-	unsigned long long crash_base, crash_size;
-	unsigned long long crash_low_size = 0;
+	unsigned long long crash_base, crash_size, search_base;
 	unsigned long long crash_max = CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX;
+	unsigned long long crash_low_size = 0;
 	char *cmdline = boot_command_line;
-	int ret;
 	bool fixed_base = false;
+	bool high = false;
+	int ret;
 
 	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE))
 		return;
@@ -155,7 +156,9 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
 		else if (ret)
 			return;
 
+		search_base = CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX;
 		crash_max = CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX;
+		high = true;
 	} else if (ret || !crash_size) {
 		/* The specified value is invalid */
 		return;
@@ -166,31 +169,51 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
 	/* User specifies base address explicitly. */
 	if (crash_base) {
 		fixed_base = true;
+		search_base = crash_base;
 		crash_max = crash_base + crash_size;
 	}
 
 retry:
 	crash_base = memblock_phys_alloc_range(crash_size, CRASH_ALIGN,
-					       crash_base, crash_max);
+					       search_base, crash_max);
 	if (!crash_base) {
 		/*
-		 * If the first attempt was for low memory, fall back to
-		 * high memory, the minimum required low memory will be
-		 * reserved later.
+		 * For crashkernel=size[KMG]@offset[KMG], print out failure
+		 * message if can't reserve the specified region.
 		 */
-		if (!fixed_base && (crash_max == CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX)) {
+		if (fixed_base) {
+			pr_info("crashkernel reservation failed - memory is in use.\n");
+			return;
+		}
+
+		/*
+		 * For crashkernel=size[KMG], if the first attempt was for
+		 * low memory, fall back to high memory, the minimum required
+		 * low memory will be reserved later.
+		 */
+		if (!high && crash_max == CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX) {
 			crash_max = CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX;
+			search_base = CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX;
 			crash_low_size = DEFAULT_CRASH_KERNEL_LOW_SIZE;
 			goto retry;
 		}
 
+		/*
+		 * For crashkernel=size[KMG],high, if the first attempt was
+		 * for high memory, fall back to low memory.
+		 */
+		if (high && crash_max == CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX) {
+			crash_max = CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX;
+			search_base = 0;
+			goto retry;
+		}
 		pr_warn("cannot allocate crashkernel (size:0x%llx)\n",
 			crash_size);
 		return;
 	}
 
-	if ((crash_base > CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX - crash_low_size) &&
-	     crash_low_size && reserve_crashkernel_low(crash_low_size)) {
+	if ((crash_base >= CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX) && crash_low_size &&
+	     reserve_crashkernel_low(crash_low_size)) {
 		memblock_phys_free(crash_base, crash_size);
 		return;
 	}
-- 
2.34.1


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